![]() ![]() Even if the original arcade system run at a measly 30Mhz, your 2-3GHz CPU may struggle to cope. The only catch is that, as mentioned, MAME has huge overhead and thus is slow. Mimicing the behavior of an arcade system is done by translating the instructions from the " machine language" of the arcade system to the "machine language" your PC uses. ![]() New arcade systems use harddisks, so in that case you have a copy of the harddisk, usually called a " chd" file. Arcade games are usually stored in ROM chips, so such a copy is called a ROM image or simply "rom". In plain English, if you have a copy of an arcade game, you can (theoretically) play it in your PC using MAME. Software that emulates (mimics the behavior of) many arcade systems, though with a massive overhead. ![]()
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